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J. H. PREATER. Jacket for Shipping-Drum.

No. 223,949. Patented Jan. 27, 1880.

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JAMES H. PREATER, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

JACKET FOR SHIPPING-DRUMS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 223,949, dated January27, 1880. Application filed December 12, 1879.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, JAMES H. PREA-TER, ofBrooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented anImprovement in Jackets forZShippingDrums, of which the following is aspecification.

Shipping-drums for spices, mustard, teas, coffee, 850.. have been madeof a sheet-metal cylinder with wooden heads, and a protection of paperor a body to the drum has been employed, as in my Patent No. 2l8,l93.

The object of the present invention is to provide a drum with asheet-metal cylinder ornamented and lettered on the surface thereof, andprotect the same for transportation by a removable jacket, and also toprovide a sign 'ends of the jacket.

or advertisement by using the inner surface of the removablejacket, sothat the jacket is adapted to the twofold purpose of protecting theornamented sheet-metal cylinder, and also to form the foundation orbacking for a printed sign.

In the drawings, Figure 1. is a horizontal section of the drum and itsjacket. Fig. 2 is a section, in larger size, of slide that unites theFig. 3 is a perspective view of the drum as jacketed for transportation,and Fig. 4: representsthe sign on the inner side of the jacket.

The shipping-drum is made of the cylinder to, of sheet. metal, with thewooden heads I) recessedto set within the ends of the metal and securedin place. One of these heads is made removable.

jecting edges of the heads. At each end of the jacket there is a foldedstrip of sheet metal pressed upon 'the paper to confine the edge, andthen folded back to form the lips i 'i. The length of the jacket is tobe such as to allow it to be wrapped around the shipping-drum, and theends will be adjacent to each other and adapted to receive thetrough-shaped slide 5, that is slipped endwise over the lips andconfines them and the jacket to the drum.

A ring, 0, upon the slide is employed, so that the person receiving thepackage can open the jacket by seizing the ring and pulling ofi' the tinslide.

The inside of the jacket 0 has upon it a printed sign or advertisementat 0, preferably of paper, so that it comes next to the ornament'edsurface of the tin drum, and when the jacket has been removed from thedrum the same can be flattened out and forms a sign that can be hung orfastened up.

By this improvement the sheet-metal drum is protected and renderedstrong by the j acket, and the sign is also protected from injury bybeing upon the inside of the jacket.

I claim as myinvention The jacket for shipping-drums, formed of thickpaper, such as straw-board, with the ends inclosed in folded strips ofmetal, and united by a folded sheet-metal slide, substantial] y as setforth.

Signed by me this 9th day of December, A. D. 1879. I

JAMES H. PREATER.

Witnesses:

GEO. '1. PINOKNEY, H. R. GOODCHILD.

